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Gender, Wellbeing, and the Politics of Imagination:
Law, Culture, Compassion
Queen's University Faculty of Law, Kingston, Ontario, Feb. 26-27, 2016
Improved wellbeing and better futures are legal issues as well as political, cultural, sociological, and economic issues. Law is not the only site of political struggle. Imagining better futures is a collective social process. Institutional transformation, law reform, and improved wellbeing demand moving toward moral imaginations focused on gender equality, diversity, and participatory governance.
According to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing national report (CIW, 2011), despite significant increases in economic growth between the years of 1994-2008,'increases in the wellbeing of Canadians were not nearly comparable.' The Index finds that societies with greater inequality have worse health and wellbeing outcomes. At the same time, countries like Canada have responsibility for one of the largest shares of global biocapacity, yet tolerate persistent levels of food insecurity, environmental contamination, and poverty.
Please join us and register now! Contact Megan.Hamilton@queensu.ca to register.
*** The Law Commission of Ontario has provided some funding to assist students from other Ontario law schools to attend, so please send this to your friends!
Anyone wanting childcare should mention this request so appropriate arrangements can be made.
For further information please contact:
Prof. Kathleen Lahey, Co-Director
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Faculty of Law, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
kal2@queensu.ca
Prof. Bita Amani, Co-Director
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Faculty of Law, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
amanib@queensu.ca
